A new research report has just revealed that the level of occupancy across hotels in Bristol has increased during March by 1.9 per cent, reaching 73.3 per cent, compared with 71.9 per cent in March last year.
A very reliable and secure access control system can prove to be extremely important for any pharma company wanting to protect its trade secrets, and that’s also the case as well with Oxford BioMedica.
Newcastle city centre is set to go through a serious redevelopment, that will see an impressive 2,200 new jobs being created through the construction and operational phases, a news report reveals.
Coca-Cola Enterprises has decided to exit it store delivery operation, a move following which almost 300 staff members will be made redundant. According to a news report, the company is set to lay off 288 staff members from its Bristol, East Kilbride, North London, Northampton, Sidcup and Wakefield sites. Coca-Cola Enterprises employs around 4,500 people across the UK.
Insurance powerhouse Aviva has just revealed the fact that it’s going to make redundant around 2,000 staff across UK, Europe and Asia, a news report reveals. The company wants to cut expenses by an estimate £400m in the near future, and in order to do so, they’ll have to cut around 6 percent of its global workforce, estimated at around 31,200 (18,000 of which are based in the UK alone).
An industrial estate in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, is set to go through a serious extension process should the local council accept the development plans, a news report reveals. The developer of the Rushacre Enterprise Park has submitted plans to extend the park in a four-stage phased expansion.
The rate of growth for permanent placements across the South East market slowed in March 2013 to the weakest pace since August 2012, a new study by accountancy firm and business adviser KPMG indicates. Unfortunately, this trend is shared by temporary placements, also recording a visible decline over the same period.
Gloucestershire-based Wildlife World will have to hire additional staff after successfully securing some very lucrative international contracts following its attendance at the world’s largest toy and educational fair in Nuremberg, a news report reveals.
US-based biotech company Viropharma has just revealed plans to extend its UK presence and increase its office space in Maidenhead in the process, a new report reveals. The firm will also rent the fourth floor of Chatsworth House, 29 Broadway, pushing the total amount of space it occupies at the property to more than 10,000 sq ft. Viropharma already has office space on the second and third floors and will pay an estimated £251,375 per year in rent, after receiving some serious rebates from the building’s managers.
Unemployment across the UK has reached the 2.52 million mark in February, marking the first increase in over a year, a report by the Office for National Statistics reveals. Nevertheless, the total number is still lower than a year ago, while the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance has dropped to just 1.54 million.
There’s a very real need for the Government to support the activity of small and medium-sized UK businesses in order to attain a boost in exports and help the country’s overall economy, the British Chambers of Commerce declared yesterday.
